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Monday January 7, 2002
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Week of January 7, 2002
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Congress hasn't decided whether to hold hearings on whether U.S. intelligence should have been able to prevent the terrorist attacks of September 11. A panel talks about how the U.S. gathers its information and how that could change in light of what many people view as the nation's most serious intelligence failure ever.
Reuel Marc Gerecht, former Middle East specialist for the CIA, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of "The Islamic Paradox"
Anthony Lake, former National Security Adviser and professor at Georgetown University
John Gannon, vice chair of Intellibridge and former chair of the National Intelligence Council
British physicist Julian Barbour has been considering the nature of time for many years, and has concluded that time doesn't really exist. He joins Diane to discuss his recent book.
Julian Barbour, author of "The End of Time" (Oxford)